After Dumbledore's exit, Severus snapped the door closed behind him and stood in front of the door. Angelina raised her eyes to him and asked,

"How was it? What is going to happen?" He closed his eyes and answered her quietly.

"He accepted my lie. I told him that you are sympathetic and… willing to join him. He didn't request your presence tonight, like I thought he would. You have to accompany me to the Meeting tomorrow night, though." Angelina jerked her head unconsciously as if to rid herself of a bad thought.

"A Meeting? Will all of the other Death Eaters be there too?" Her voice sounded small. Severus knew that she was thinking about two Death Eaters in particular. Bellatrix and Greyback.

"Yes, they will be. I will be with you the entire time though. I will protect you." She nodded at him but continued to question, her eyes wide.

"What if they don't like me? What if Bellatrix says something, or…" Severus cut across her quickly.

"No. Do not worry about the Death Eaters. Ignore them all. Only focus on impressing the

Dark Lord. His acceptance is the only thing that matters." Even though her questions were completely understandable, he found them disconcerting as they revealed the extent to which she was ignorant. They would have a lot of work to do tomorrow. Severus turned his mind back to the strange sight that met him upon entering her room.

"Angelina, what did Dumbledore have to say to you?" His question startled her as she had already dismissed that conversation from her mind. Standing, she came to him and held his weary form.

"He wanted me to leave you. I told him no, that I would never leave you." Her words were plain, simple, and fervently honest. His lips met hers rapidly, but ever so gently. As she kissed him back, Severus lifted her off of her feet and carried her to her bed. Slowly, he got up and began to pace around her room muttering protective incantations.

"Sev, what are you doing? We're safe here, we're in Hogwarts." She assured him cautiously. He did not turn to her as he answered,

"Just let me. Just let me do this. Salvio Hexia. Protego Totalum. Muffliato. Nox." At his last utterance the candles in the room extinguished but the full moon shined in from her bare window, bathing the room in a pastel, milky glow. Severus went back to the bed where she was lying on her back and once again covered her mouth with his own. She wrapped her legs around his body and ran her fingers through his long hair. Keeping his eyes locked on hers, he lifted himself up, and moved his right hand from her waist down to her thigh until he reached where the fabric of the dress ended and found her bare skin. Angelina bit down on her lower lip as his hand began to move back up her thigh, this time underneath her dress. His fingers reached her hips and felt the lace band of her underwear. Following the delicate lace, his fingers stirred across the smoothness of her lower belly and moved down to the wet warmth between her legs. Angelina broke their eye contact and looked away shyly.

"Angelina, look at me." The words were low, whispered. Angelina locked her eyes with his at the precise moment that he moved her panties aside and danced his fingers across her most sensitive area. Lying perfectly still she held her breath as he slid the lace down the length of her legs and down, onto the floor. He gently pulled her legs apart, exposing her to him fully. Whereas last time had been rough and lustful, now was soft and passionate. Severus wanted to explore and discover. He had never been with such a beautiful woman. After many long moments of his delicate teasing, Angelina moved her body up and began to remove his robes. Pale skin and fearsome scars were revealed to her as clothing fell away from his body. A particularly large, thick scar crossed his abdomen and stood out in rigid relief. Angelina bent down and moved her lips across it, tenderly, kissing it lightly. Severus buried a hand in her hair and gently pulled her head up to look at him.

"I love you, Angelina." The smile that crossed her face was dazzling as she replied,

"And I, you."

She was now naked in his lap, her legs wrapped around his torso as she rode him, hard. A light sheen of sweat covered her body as she rotated her hips against him. His hands clutched at her bottom as he ground her into his body. Angelina could feel their climax building as she cried out against his mouth. Severus left her lips and progressed down between her breasts. He moved his head to a breast and captured a dark nipple between his lips. He was rewarded with a high moan. Pulling on her hard nubbin with his teeth he relished her cries of lust. Feeling his climax about to manifest he put an arm around her, flipping her over onto her back and intertwined her fingers with his own. Angelina's orgasm hit her like a hurricane and Severus could feel her muscles clamp around him like a vice. That was it. He came in her hard, burying his face in her neck, her voice ringing in his ears.

Watching her sleeping form, a quick thought crossed Severus's mind. Mimicking the action that he had repeated a few nights previously he carefully reached over and slid his wand from her small table and traced the tip of his wand down the smooth skin of her forearm and whispered a quick charm.

"Sine Gravida." Replacing his wand, he settled down to sleep and resolved to talk to Angelina about contraception before the next time they had relations. However, if Angelina had known what he had just done she would have been devastated. Angelina Johnson was not one for needless risk taking. While he had been placing unnecessary protective enchantments, she had cast a contraceptive charm on herself. And as every witch knows, two contraception charms cast on the same woman within the same timeframe can sometimes have counterintuitive results.